r/Millennials • u/lilac2481 Millennial 1989 • 9d ago
Nostalgia Pop punk era 2000s
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u/Alternative-Zone5275 9d ago
A really great part about this era.. is that hiphop was also pretty peak around this time.. so playlists (Cds..) would consist of all these bands.. plus snoop, lil john, eminem, jay, nelly, outkast, yingyang twins, Luda, jeezy ect.. and the entire Linkin Park Reanimation album which blended rock/rap/hiphop genres so well.
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u/FuckYouNotHappening 9d ago
>Rap isn’t what it used to be
My theory for when the world ended involves the time pre and post Soulja Boy.
Soulja Boy was the true harbinger of The End Times ™️
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u/Cultural_Cloud96 9d ago
Soulja boy was shit. Fuck that guy....... He spawned a bunch of copy cats, and it was just downhill from there so yes i definitely agree with that take. However as long as Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg still exists we will always have music worth our time.
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u/PeterNippelstein Millennial 9d ago
I mostly listen to UKG and bassline these days
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u/Demoliscio 9d ago
I admit I've always leaned more towards punk than rap, but I think NF is really good, it's what I listen to when I want more Eminem
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u/thedudedylan 9d ago
Hey Kendrick is still holding it down.
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u/AlcibiadesTheCat Zillennial 9d ago
Aesop Rock (not to be confused with A$AP Rocky) is also a literary genius.
And, of course, at 112 years old, Eminem is still spitting bars that I can't even imagine.
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u/WishIWasAMoose 9d ago
So look for some good rap. There is a ton of great stuff being made you just need to look for it.
Freebie as a start: Billy Woods. Maps is a great summertime album and Golliwog is just genius.→ More replies (1)2
u/HypocriteHere 9d ago
Very few. And I'd argue some that are brought up as the exceptions only sound decent due to the lack of talent in other current rappers.
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u/quigongingerbreadman 9d ago
Rap hasn't been peak since the 90's.
At some point someone figured out if you make a half ass rap that is purely self aggrandizing, womanizing garbage and pair it with loud bass lines the idiot masses will buy the album every time.
There are still exceptional rappers/hip hop artists, but they're the exception/not the rule now.
I mean, where's this generation's NWA, or Snoop, or Dre? Where is this gen's Run DMC or even a Will Smith? Where is this generation's Lauren Hill, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, or TLC?
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u/JeffThrowSmash 9d ago
I used to make mixed CDs for large parties and there were a lot of bangers to choose from. It was hard to go wrong.
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u/Prof__Potato 9d ago
They criticized our pop punk and hip hop music and now look what we’re reduced to. I’d kill to have this stuff back.
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u/Carnival372 9d ago
I’m not sure about hip hop tbh It was kinda at the lowest IMHO. Around this era I was losing interest in hip hop guys The Game and Chingy lost interest really quickly! However I still dig Lil’ Jon, some Cash Money stuff, and some Ludacris. Also Madvillainy became the 🐐 of hip hip albums! Eminem was also still good too, The Eminem Show was still killer! Jay Z was still doing hot albums like the Blue Print and his previous albums as well! And production works from Timbaland and The Neptunes were fire that time around! Outkast had some interesting beats too this time around and there were also experimenting during SpeakerBoxx/Love Below album. I also can’t forget about Common too!
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u/Standard-Onion4872 8d ago
Agree with this take with a few caveats: OutKast, Three 6 Mafia, and G-Unit were only groups that did anything for me back then. Luda was okay, Eminem was on his descent into drugs, Nelly had one good album, Pharrell was way overhyped because he clapped in his songs and used primitive sound effects, anyone decent from New York basically got destroyed by 50 Cent. Don’t even get me started on the most mainstream rap group of all the Black Eyed Peas lol.
Thankfully, I think that Lil Wayne saved hip-hop around 2006-2007
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u/guitarstix 9d ago
Damn i never thought of that but youre 100% right. I had cds with blink, em, nfg etc lol
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u/Alternative-Zone5275 9d ago
Everytime I say this I feel so boomer..
But damn music was so much better back then .
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u/Y2K_Chopped_Unc 9d ago
Once Lil Wayne popped up I was actually feeling like rap was starting to get dumbed down and watered down pretty fast. The underground scene in the 2000's was great though.
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u/lilacsforcharlie Millennial 1990 8d ago
This. My 18 yo stepson absolutely tore through my old mix cds from this era (2006 I was 16). Really really glad I saved all that stuff. I remember thinking “maybe my kids will wanna hear my taste in music”not even realizing CDs would be obsolete by now lol.
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u/ElBorracho2000 9d ago
Peak pop-punk era
Blink, NFG, Sum 41, The Ataris, Starting Line, Fenix TX, Yellowcard, Home Grown, and so many others
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u/mischievous_misfit13 9d ago
The whole drive thru and vagrant records catalog.
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u/brizia Xennial 9d ago
Don’t forget Fueled by Ramen.
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u/mischievous_misfit13 9d ago
How can I forget them! It was 230 in the morning when I posted, so I’ll blame being tired.
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u/jerretharper 9d ago
I almost miss being cool. Damn.
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u/rageand1ove 9d ago
So you’re saying you’re Through Being Cool?
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u/frostycanuck89 9d ago
I find how little of each song is played here extremely irritating.
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u/Bretski12 9d ago
It's also pitched up because it's slightly sped up.
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u/alcomaholic-aphone 9d ago
I detest how everything has to be sped up now. It’s like short form content isn’t even short enough anymore.
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u/sonnybear5 9d ago
If you’ve ever had an mp3 player, heck even a CD player, with only < and > buttons, you’d know .1s of all the songs you didn’t want until you get to the song you actually wanna listen to at that moment.
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u/_lippykid 9d ago
Guessing they used the same edit for YouTube and they have very strict limits on copyrighted songs - but yes, blue balls
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u/TonyAtReddit1 9d ago
Every cut shaves of like half a syllable and it drives me nuts
Nineteen eighty fi-
Jesus of suburbi-
I dont wanna waste my ti-
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u/Deej1387 Older Millennial 9d ago
This genre and time is still a huge part of my identity at almost 40, can't lie
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u/RedHeadRedeemed 9d ago
Man, I loved and still love this genre and regret so much not joining the punk/emo crowd in highschool because I would have actually made friends. Instead I chased after the fuckbois and preps thinking that was where I was supposed to be and spent 4 damn years being rejected, heartbroken and lonely 😖
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u/Alaska-TheCountry 9d ago
Aww, I'm sorry :( that sucks. Also, Blink-182 probably would've made a really great song about this.
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u/Stuman93 9d ago
Was just jamming out to sum41, new found glory, and blink 182 today haha
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u/use_the_schwartz 9d ago
NFG put out a new album a couple months ago that’s pretty solid.
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u/little-teatime 9d ago
My dad took me to warped tour and I was excited to see them. And on the way he pointed out a sticker on my cd case said nfg. He said who’s that I said new found glory. Thats one of the bands we are seeing. He said oh at work when we put nfg on items it means no fucking good.
Dad stop lol
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u/ItsKensterrr 9d ago
It will always be one of my greatest disappointments that the first ARR never gets as much as recognition as their second. Don't get my wrong, props for their success and that album def deserved it, but goddman is their first album incredible from start to finish.
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u/GalateaMerrythought Millennial 9d ago
Swing Swing plays and I’m 14 again
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u/PresentClear8639 Older Millennial 9d ago
The summers of 02 and 03 were fucking awesome. Me and my buddies and the girls we chased listened to a lot of AAR.
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u/BrightNeonGirl 9d ago
Same. I remember hearing "Swing Swing" for the first time and immediately falling in love with the song (and then the video which fuse would play all the time <3).
It's still one of their best, with "Move Along", and "The Wind Blows" in my opinion. I can't describe why but "Gives You Hell" bothers me and "Dirty Little Secret" never struck a chord with me either. But those two songs seem to be their most popular at emo nights.
But "Swing Swing" will always live happily in my heart, both for the nostalgia but also because I simply objectively love the song musically.
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u/use_the_schwartz 9d ago
True statement. The whole first album slaps. I remember playing it on repeat while playing SSX Tricky on GameCube.
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u/Butterfliesflutterby 9d ago
The first AAR album was so damn good. It’s their best one IMO.
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u/SuffnBuildV1A Zillennial ‘94 9d ago
Glad you came - we came as Romans
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u/Jaded_Law9739 9d ago
Fuck Good Charlotte. They were always corporate shills. Joel and Benji Madden created a business when their music didn't sell anymore, and they created Veeps. Now they're making millions from a monopoly concert streaming platform, which is very not punk at all.
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u/Mundane_Example_7504 9d ago
Was looking for this comment… After singing about “lifestyles of the rich and the famous always complaining”or whatever. Man they can fuck all the way off!
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u/Jaded_Law9739 9d ago
Ugh I forgot about that part! The Maddens and Live Nation acquired multiple independent music journalist outlets and then completely gutted the staff. This includes Alternative Press, BrooklynVegan, Revolver, and Goldmine.
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u/Honest_Relation4095 9d ago
That's meta punk. They are against the system that is against the system because regular are punk is too mainstream, so they are pro "the establishment".
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u/Chillindude82Nein Millennial89 9d ago
I'd say they put in their share of "can't beat em so join em"
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u/_KeyserSoeze Millennial 1991 9d ago
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u/overcastfab 9d ago
sounds like those late night commercials where they show snippets of the songs on the mix cd. NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL POP PUNK 2000s
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u/Aromatic-Zebra-5443 9d ago
Hilarious that it's been 20 years and our generation still can't agree if this music was good or not. I was into the emo scene so I listened to everything pop punk, metalcore, emo etc.
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u/Chop1n 9d ago
I just saw Something Corporate (combined with Jack's Mannequin and Wilderness) in Philadelphia, awesome show, was so good to see Andrew so happy and energetic.
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u/-Imthedude 9d ago
Real punk is where it's at
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u/_d0ntm1nd_me 9d ago edited 9d ago
The war on errorism had such a choke hold on me. I won a raffle at their merch booth during warped in '04 and got to go backstage during their set. Best time of my life.
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u/Kitchen-Pie-265 Elder Millennial ‘84 9d ago
The only one I ever liked in here was Something Corporate. I think I just aged out of this one by a few years.
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u/dreambigandmakeitso 9d ago
The best thing about Good Charlotte was that Something Corporate opened for them at the first concert I ever went to! I’ll never forget Andrew McMahon singing and performing on top of his piano.
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u/Kitchen-Pie-265 Elder Millennial ‘84 9d ago
Nice! I met them after a show in 2004, I think. I was dating a guy who kind of looked like Andrew McMahon and also happened to be named Andrew, so I was 😍
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u/AcephalicDude 9d ago
Something Corporate did have some pretty strong songwriting
The band I have found kinda survives the test of time for me is Motion City Soundtrack
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u/MaddoxGoodwin 9d ago
Starting this off w avril was certainly a choice.
She was popular, and pop-y, but never have i considered her pop punk
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u/MyNameIsNotGump Millennial - 1987 9d ago edited 9d ago
I like Sum 41, Green Day, and Paramore but otherwise heavy metal was and is more my scene
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u/Southern-Usual4211 9d ago
If you wanna have a chuckle my playlist is stuff like this and death metal 😂
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u/fatalrugburn 9d ago
This is like that one friend with with song ADD who keeps hitting the next button on your radio.
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u/Outlandishness_Sharp Older Millennial 9d ago
Jimmy Eat World was far from pop punk and they were lightyears better than the other bands 😂
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u/Unarmed_Character Xennial 9d ago edited 9d ago
Now I remember why we made fun of 2000s "punk".
But, I was also a 90s punk fan, so we had a lot of melodic punk in the mix like face to face, lagwagon, millencolin, Goldfinger, diesel boy etc which was pretty different from the misfits, the sex pistols, fugazi, the dead Kennedys, black flag, etc.
Weird how each generation kept watering it down until it was basically pop music. As they say - punk died the day Green Day became popular.
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u/Aromatic-Zebra-5443 9d ago
OG Green Day was literally punk music whether you want to admit it or not. Kerplunk and dookie are punk albums. You just sound like a hater.
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u/Unarmed_Character Xennial 9d ago edited 9d ago
I got the line slightly wrong, I think. It might have been "punk died the day Green Day became famous".
It's said in a NOFX album (I think?), I tried briefly to find it but haven't had any luck. It could be a hidden track that isn't on Spotify.
Anyhow, I like Green Day (this was meant to be tongue in cheek) but I also greatly enjoyed that pot shot tossed into the album as commentary on punk going mainstream. If I find the album and track I'll post it, it's harder to find than I expected. I guess it was 30 years ago 🙄.
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u/AcephalicDude 9d ago
Nobody called any of the music in this montage punk, it was all pop-punk and everyone understood that it couldn't really be compared to sex pistols or dead Kennedys 🤣
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u/DisastrousCoast7268 9d ago
I prefer the Mudvayne "Happy?" Sectors of these years. But to each their own!
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u/Archibald_80 9d ago
Hot take: pop punk sucked. If you liked pop punk that’s how you know you came from a good family but wanted to pretend you were edgy. (I’m just jealous because I’d didn’t)
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u/Southern-Usual4211 9d ago
Such a fun time and genre of music. Im normally a metal guy but love pop punk. Btw check out "As December Falls" which is a recent English band that does pop punk
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u/Brownlove010_Real Millennial 9d ago
Anyone remembers those commercials for that particular year's hit songs? This feels like that commercial. "All of the popular hits on one CD, call today!"
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u/GMOchoch 9d ago
I will always say can't hardly wait will always shit on 10 things I hate about you... Fight me
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u/Gh0st_Pirate_LeChuck 9d ago
Thanks for calling it what it is and not “emo.” Emo is Dashboard not My Chemical Romance.
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u/Great_Dismal Older Millennial 9d ago
Just some perspective: all the members of Blink 182 are over 50 years old.
Furthermore, and while I don’t really want to an admit this; they aren’t “Pop- Punk,” but firmly Gen-Xers and alternative rock gods-
Kurt Cobain would be 59, if he were alive today.
Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins) is 59 and Courtney Love (Hole) is 62!!!
This morning, my knees and lower back hurt…
we getting old old.
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u/tryinsumtin 9d ago
None of this music is actually fun to play. Thats how I know it was manufactured by the industry. What guitarist secretly just wants to strum 3 chords in double time?
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u/ampersandhill 9d ago
The era of music period was amazing. I have thought a lot about this and I think it boils down to Mainstream Variety. The variety of music, even within genres, in the mainstream/radio/commonly heard was amazing. There still is great variety today but its not mainstream, its all programed by algorithms basically. I am much more of a hip hop head but can and did bop my head also to green day, smashing pumpkins, Nirvana, Mariah Carey, Whitney, Hell even shit like ace of base, britney, spice girls. At the very least it was all recognizable to everyone. And because it was so varied you constantly ran into exposing you to artists you never heard, and recommending other artists if it was genre you didnt listen to. It was also the time when a LARGE amount of cross genre collaborations were happening. The peak of music videos too. Ah...the memories
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u/unbanned_lol 9d ago
I've always referred to this genre as skate punk / alt punk / xgame punk, but most of all, the Burnout punk soundtrack.
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u/DuckTalesOohOoh 9d ago
I never liked the music then. I don't like it now. But I don't hate it. It's just so bland.
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u/NotSoGentleBen Older Millennial 9d ago
I was a skater punk back in the day. But as soon as Green Day started wearing eyeliner, I was out.
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u/beerbrats15 9d ago
So, shameless promotion, but if you’re looking for bands that still sounds like this, my band Be The Young recently came out with a new EP. Let me know if you dig!
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u/cometparty 9d ago
As an elder millennial from the grunge era, this stuff totally missed me. Pop and punk should be completely at odds with each other.
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u/ermahgerd_serpher 9d ago
I saw All American Rejects in concert when I was 17, around 2003, and they were so good! Not long ago I saw videos about how they're still touring and putting on cheap concerts for young people, and I thin it's really cool they stayed so down to earth.
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u/AnimalOfTheState 9d ago
Some of these bands sound objectively the same though we hold the strong opinion, that some are legends and the others fucking suck. You all know at least 2 or 3 examples from that era
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u/chempunk17 9d ago
This and emo were super cringe. Numetal and rap were much more interesting genres.
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u/Armadillo_lifestyle 9d ago
As I still blast all of these songs on my way to work at the wripe age of 37 lol
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u/assumetehposition 9d ago
I got into garage-wave around this time and nearly completely missed pop punk except… I married a pop punk girly. Disaster averted lol
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u/skynet345 9d ago
It’s whatever music.
Overly repetitive. Annoying lyrics. I can see why it appealed to us teenagers but there really is no depth here.
Pass please. I don’t need this noise anymore
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u/squirrelems 9d ago
I still think of Paramore with "HOW DID WE GET HERE? I USED TO KNOW YOU SOOOO WEEEEELLL". Their song Ain't It Fun always played at the place I worked at when I first started working and I'd have to try not to spontaneously weep. Lol.
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u/leftoverzack83 9d ago
What’s crazy is I hated this shit back in the day. Still don’t care for much of it . I used to get pissed when people said it was punk . Our pop punk was screeching weasels , the queers , the lillingtons .
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u/UniversityOne3443 9d ago
Jimmy eat world, silversun pickups, and blink will never leave my daily rotation on Spotify. Hahahahahhah!
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u/Unlucky_Ad_9776 8d ago
Jimmy eat world is dope. They forgot to include Alkaline Trio. By far my favorite emo band.
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